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iMac g3 500 MHz 1 GB ram running os 10.3.9
Takes 7 minutes to to start up
Freezes and takes centuries to search items with the finder
Still works pretty well on the internet
Has 5 GB of songs on it if that may have anything to do with it.

I have another iMac of the same model running Mac os 10.1, and that one loads everything way faster.

1. This hard drive may be almost full.
2. This hard drive may be on its "last legs"...and is about to crash.

- Nick

- Too many "beachballs", read this: Beachballs- Computer seems slower than it used to? Read this for some slow computer tips: Speedup- Almost full hard drive? Some solutions. Out of Space- Apple Battery Info. Battery

Hard Drives are mechanical devices. They all wear out and some the first day, the first week, the first month, the first year! Eventually though a hard drive will die. I had a machine very similar to yours and the drives in some were old Quantums and those in many cases I have seen died quite fast.

- Too many "beachballs", read this: Beachballs- Computer seems slower than it used to? Read this for some slow computer tips: Speedup- Almost full hard drive? Some solutions. Out of Space- Apple Battery Info. Battery